Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being.
SIVANANDAWhy do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
More Sivananda Quotes
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The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
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The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
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Your thoughts should agree with your words, and the words should agree with your actions. In this world people think one thing, say another thing, and do something else. This is horrible. This is crookedness.
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An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
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Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.
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When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.
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Faith is a belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains. Faith is the searchlight for God-finding.
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Illness begins with I, Wellness begins with we.
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Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.
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Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.
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An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!
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Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always ‘I am healthily in body and mind’.
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Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.
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The inward battle–against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past–is more terrible than outward battle.
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Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
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